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Showmasters have made a number of updates on their forum over the last few days for the Massive Events Lords Of Time Convention which takes place from the 7th-9th September.

The full guest list (as announced to date) is:

David TennantFrazer Hines (Second Doctor's companion Jamie, also Emmerdale)Anthony Head (Mr. Finch in School Reunion, also Merlin, Buffy The Vampire Slayer)Mark Benton (Clive in Rose, also Waterloo Road, Land Girls)Andrew Hayden-Smith (recurring Doctor Who role as Jake Simmonds, also Byker Grove)Shaun Dingwall (recurring Doctor Who role as Peter Tyler, also Learners, Above Suspicion)Nina Toussaint-White (Mels in Let's Kill Hitler, also Eastenders)Lachele Carl (recurring Doctor Who role as Trinity Wells)Jeremy Young (Kal in An Unearthly Child, the first Doctor Who villain)James Moran (Doctor Who and Torchwood screenwriter, also the writer of Severence)Mat Irvine (visual effects designer on classic Who series)K9 (the original production model)
All ticket holde…

The hit Aardman animated movie The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists will have its first showing on UK TV in September when it comes to Sky Box Office. The film, which features the voices of David Tennant and Hugh Grant, will begin showings on Monday 10th September.

From the Sky website:

Avast ye, as the crew behind Wallace & Gromit set a
course for skulduggery and animated anarchy with author Gideon Defoe’s
underachieving Pirate Captain (here voiced by Hugh Grant). Determined - if
unlikely - to win the coveted Pirate of the Year award, the hapless buccaneer’s
fortunes change when he runs into the young Charles Darwin (David Tennant). But
while Lady Luck may be with him, pirate-hating Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton)
most certainly is not. A bounty of cutlass-sharp observation and yo-ho-ho for
young lubbers and old sea-dogs alike.

The first showing will be at 6am on Monday 10th September on Sky Movies Box office..
For more information visit the Sky website
The same day als…

More filming dates for David Tennant's new channel 4 panel show, The Comedy World Cup, have been announced and tickets have gone up on the SRO website.This show will take place on Saturdays & Sundays 8th, 16th,
23rd September & 7th October 2012.The venue is
Teddington StudiosThe nearest station is
TeddingtonThe doors open at 1.00pm & 5.00pm
each dayTickets are limited so apply quickly The minimum age for
the show is 18 years.Click here to apply for tickets!

Filming is continuing on David Tennant's new ITV1 drama, Broadchurch and David has been meeting a few of his fans who are lucky enough to be local to where the action is being filmed.
The local newspaper, Weston, Worle and Somerset Mercury reports that Claire and Ellie Taylor, along with Skye Fowler, spotted the crew filming in Avon Way, Portishead and seized the opportunity to have a photo taken.

The Pirates! Band Of Misfits has its North American release on DVD and Blu-ray today.

The hit animated movie from Aardman and Sony Pictures features the voices of Hugh Grant, David Tennant, Martin Freeman and Imelda Staunton. The Pirate Captain leads his ragtag crew across the seven seas in a quest to win the Pirate Of The Year competition. On the way they encounter a pirate-hating Queen Victoria and a young, lovelorn Charles Darwin as they attempt to rescue the Captain's 'parrot' Polly and claim the prize.

DVD bonus features include: Filmmakers’ commentary,So You Want to Be a Pirate! mini-movieMr. Bobo’s Flash Card Challenge game (DVD exclusive)DVD-ROM with access to more film fun online

You can now watch the Dramaville preview trailer which contains some brief clips of David Tennant in The Spies Of Warsaw.
Twitter user @mochaahh has posted the clips which shows three brief glimpses of David - in a bedroom scene, a line of dialogue and an apparent nighttime escape.

View the trailer here:

The Spies Of Warsaw stars David Tennant and Janet Montgomery. It is due to come to TV screens some time this autumn.

David Tennant is one of a number of well-known people who have recorded information for a charity event that will be running in Milton Keynes next month.

Woodland Whispers takes place from Monday 17th to Saturday 22nd September at Campbell Park in Milton Keynes and is a series of organised walks enhanced with recorded stories about the animal inhabitants of the area. It is organised by MK Women And Work, a local charity that aims to help local women improve their employment prospects by providing advice and guidance and a variety of free training courses. From their website:

Woodland Whispers Would your children like to know about the lives of trees, animals and insects? Milton Keynes Women and Work in conjunction with the Parks Trust will be running an event on the Woodland Ridge of Campbell Park from Monday 17thSeptember through to Saturday 22nd. Groups of adults and children will be taken for a walk along the ridge where they will hear about the lives of its inhabitants as they go alo…

New episodes of Tree Fu Tom begin on CBeebies from September 3rd. David Tennant and Sophie Aldred provide voices for the hit children's animation which has become the channel's most watched show of 2012.

Episode details for the first week are:

Episode 14: One For
All
Monday 3rd September
Tom (Sophie Aldred) leads his under-performing squizzle team on a quest to
find the enchanted squizzle to help them play perfectly. They follow clues and
overcome epic challenges on their journey to win help from the mysterious
Squizzle Master. Tom and his friends must learn valuable lessons about teamwork
to win through. Episode 15: Treefle
Tom
Tuesday 4th September
Tom and his friends' greed for the tasty treefle treats
growing all over Treetopolis for just one day leads to trouble. What starts as
sharing descends to frenzied competition - can Tom overcome his own greed and
get his competing friends to cooperate before disaster strikes? Episode 16: The Great
Journey
Wednesday 5th Septemb…

Channel Four have put out a press release that gives a little more information about David Tennant's new panel show - Comedy World Cup:

Kicking off Saturday
nights, David Tennant will host Comedy
World Cup, a brand new series in which the funniest folk in comedy team up
for a new panel show. Across a seven-part series, teams of comedians will
harness all of their comedy cunning to avoid being knocked-out and be in with a
chance to claim THE ultimate prize: The Comedy World Cup.Host David Tennant,
said: "As a big comedy geek I'm looking forward to proving that I know
more about it than the professionals!"Justin Gorman, Head of
C4 Entertainment said: "Needless to say when we thought who could match,
handle and wrangle some of the funniest and most talented comedians on TV, we
decided it had to be David Tennant so are thrilled he agreed."Comedy World Cup was
commissioned by Justin Gorman and will be Executive Produced by Andrew Beint and
Addison Cresswell. Pro…

The seven-part series, titled Comedy World Cup, will see teams of comedians using their stand-up
to avoid being knocked out of the competition. The programme was announced by chief creative officer Jay Hunt at the International Edinburgh TV Festival.
It is believed that the series is scheduled for Saturday nights.

Thanks to our friends over at DT Forum we have a few screencaps of David Tennant in The Spies Of Warsaw from the new BBC America Dramaville trailer. The channel are showing a couple of tiny glimpses of David in the new miniseries which will be coming to screens later this year.

Big thanks especially go out to eidesg from the Forum for the caps.

The Spies Of Warsaw stars David alongside Janet Montgomery and Burn Gorman. It is based on the novel by Alan Furst and was filmed on location in Poland earlier this year.

Tree Fu Tom comes to Canadian TV today
The hit animated show from the UK will be shown on the BBC Kids
channel. Former Doctor Who stars Sophie Aldred and David Tennant voice the
characters of Tom and Twigs in the amazing adventures of a young boy
called Tom who, uses the magic of Tree Fu to enter the world of Treetopolis as
a tiny superhero.
With his best friend Twigs, a silly and energetic acorn sprite and with the
help of Zigzoo the inventor frog, Squirmtum the woodlouse, rancher butterfly
Ariela and the wise treeling Treetog they have amazing adventures, usually
involving saving Treetopolis from the mischievous Mushas Stink and
Puffy.
Tom conjures up Big World Magic through special moves and
encourages the young audience to join in. All spell movements have been
developed from those used to help children who have movement disorders and
difficulties such as Dyspraxia, and the spell sequences have been designed by
movement specialists/therapists to assist and enhance the development…

It's Tree Fu Go! for all fans of the CBeebies top rated show of 2012 as the series returns with brand new episodes in two weeks time.

Former Doctor Who stars Sophie Aldred and David Tennant provide the voices for magical hero Tom and his acorn sprite sidekick Twigs in the amazing animated series that first burst onto our screens earlier this year

The BBC Media Centre say of the series:

David Tennant and Sophie Aldred are back to breathe life into heroic and fun-loving characters Tom and Twigs, in brand new episodes of the fantasy action adventure series Tree Fu Tom.Currently CBeebies number one show of the year to date, Tree Fu Tom combines innovative elements of heroic action, fantasy and magic, coupled with unique interactive physical activity.Set in the enchanted world of Treetopolis, where movement creates magic, viewers are encouraged to interact with the show through physical actions that have been devised and approved by movement development specialists to assist in the dev…

Clips from David Tennant's new film Nativity 2: Danger In The Manger will be shown at the Christian Resource Exhibition in Manchester in October. Director Debbie Isitt will be present to introduce the film which the exhibition organisers describe as an ideal festive outing. Although not specifically marketed as a Christian film, like its predecessor Nativity! the new moviefollows the fortunes of St. Bernadette's Primary School as they prepare for a traditional Christmas show. The CRE organisers said:

"With its themes of forgiveness and good triumphing over evil, the movie provides an ideal opportunity for group outings to the cinema over the festive season." David Tennant stars as over-anxious teacher Mr. Peterson in the film, who finds himself in competition with his twin brother (also David) and lost in the countryside with a classload of kids, a baby, a donkey and his classroom assistant Mr. Poppy (Marc Wootton) on the way to a Christmas competition. The Christia…

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment have released an Aardman animated short featuring the cast of The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists.

Details:

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment launched'SO YOU WANT TO BE A PIRATE!' on DVD exclusively
with Tesco stores nationwide on August 13th to get you ready to set sail for
the release ofTHE PIRATES!
IN AN ADVENTURE WITH SCIENTISTSon September 10th. From the Academy Award-winning Aardman (Chicken Run)
and Sony Pictures Animation (The Smurfs), comes an all-new short swashbuckling
stop-motion animated adventure to get you ship-shape to help the Pirate Captain
and his band of misfits in THE PIRATES! IN AN ADVENTURE WITH SCIENTISTS. Let the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain, voiced byHugh Grant(About
A Boy), and his band of misfits (Martin Freeman,Brendan
Gleeson,Russell ToveyandAshley Jensen)
guide you with hilarious, fun-loving tips and advice to becoming a seaworthy
addition to the crew and help them in their madcap adventure to win the c…

David Tennant sent Christian O'Connell a specially recorded version of the Spandau Ballet classic Gold to include in this morning's Olympic tribute Spandathon on Absolute Radio this morning. The song has been played 29 times - one for each gold medal won by the UK Olympic squad.

The show has also included versions by Tony Hadley, Newton Faulkner and opera singer Joanne McGahon.

You can listen to David's rather unique reading here, thanks to Absolute Radio. I think you'll agree with us that it is pretty splendid!

Keep an ear out for an appearance by David Tennant on Christian O'Connell's Absolute Radio Breakfast Show tomorrow morning.

Christian and the Breakfast crew made a pledge that they would celebrate the GB Olympic squad's success in the Games by playing a version of the Spandau Ballet classic Gold for every gold medal that the team won. With the total now at twenty-nine golds, there will be a special souvenir edition of the show tomorrow morning (Monday 13th) where the pledge will be honoured.

Spandau Ballet lead singer Tony Hadley will be joining Christian in the studio to perform a live version of the track while other versions will be provided by Newton Faulkner and the Breakfast Show listeners. Christian also tweeted this morning that he had even got his good friend and occasional co-presenter David in on the act:

"We have an amazing spoken word version of 'Gold' recorded by
David Tennant as if on stage at the RSC. It's brilliant. A luvvie remix!"

David Tennant is a consummate reader of audiobooks,
previously having brought to vivid life such titles as My Sister Lives On The Mantelpiece, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again and, of course, the How To Train Your Dragon series by
Cressida Cowell. Now he turns his vocal talents to a classic modern British
adventure story to read On Her Majesty’s
Service, one of Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels. We've had a sneak peak (or whatever the aural equivalent is) and we can tell you that this is definitely set to be another David favourite.
Dropping his native accent in favour of something more Home
Counties, David Tennant takes up the tale as 007 embarks on another danger-packed
mission to save the world from a criminal threat.
Following information given to him by crime syndicate boss Marc-Ange
Draco, Bond continues his pursuit of Ernst Blofeld and SPECTRE to Switzerland
while also finding time to romance Draco’s daughter. The drama finds him making
a breathless downhill escape on sk…

Polish company ATM System, who provided cameras, lenses and managed technical matters on the set of David Tennant's new wartime drama The Spies Of Warsaw have posted a number of production photos from the series on their website. The pictures feature David Tennant, director Coky Giedroyc and other members of the cast and crew during filming.
You can view the full set of photos here
Thanks to our friends at DT Forum we also have a translation of the Polish text On April 11th
2012 filming began on the historical drama ‘The Spies Of Warsaw’. Broadcast of
the four-part production is scheduled for autumn 2012, screening simultaneously
on the British channel BBC Four and the Polish TVP1.Filming of ‘The Spies
Of Warsaw’ took place entirely in Poland – in Warsaw, Krakow and Nieborów.The director of ‘Spies’
is Coky Giedroyc, a relative of Jerzy Giedroyc, the journalist, author and
editor of the Parisian ‘Kultura’. Production design is byEva Skoczkowska, the cinematographer is Wojciech Szep…

The Spies Of Warsaw starring David Tennant and Janet Montgomery is now available to pre-order on Region 2 DVD now. The two-part wartime drama is due to be shown on BBC Four this autumn.

From the BBC Shop website:

David Tennant and Janet Montgomery star in this adaptation
of Alan Furst's celebrated spy novel set in Poland, Paris and Berlin in the
years leading up to the Second World War. At the French embassy in Warsaw, the
new military attaché, Colonel Jean-Francois
Mercier (David Tennant), is drawn into a world of abduction, betrayal and
intrigue in the diplomatic salons and back alleys of the city. At the same
time, the handsome aristocrat is involved in a passionate love affair with Anna
(Janet Montgomery), a Parisian woman of
polish heritage, a lawyer for the league of nations. Risking his life, Mercier
works in the shadows amid a remarkable cast of characters, some known to him as
spies, some never to be revealed. It is a city where people drink and fight and
spy and love, b…

Series one and two of brilliant BBC spoof documentary series Twenty Twelve will be released as a Region 2 DVD box set from Monday 6th August.

David Tennant narrates the award-winning comedy which follows the efforts of the Olympic Deliverance Committee as they battle to make sure that the 2012 London Games run smoothly.

Item description:

Twenty Twelve Series 1
& 2 Box Set Filmed in a documentary style, Twenty Twelve deals with such
hot topics as how to phase the traffic lights across London to get people from
west to east; who to sell the Taekwondo hall to after the event; what to do
when protesters leave large quantities of horse dung on the doorstep in protest
at the siting of the equestrian events, and how to cope with sportsmen who want
to help but are just too dull.
From getting a busload of non-English speaking Brazilians from A to B, who to
appoint to run the Cultural Olympiad and what to do when the much-vaunted wind
turbines won’t turn because there’s no wind, it’s all in…

David Tennant was interviewed by Matt Mira on last night's Attack Of The Show which was shown last night on G4 in the USA and Canada and on Fuel in Australia. The interview was recorded on Tuesday and included chat about Doctor Who, The Spies Of Warsaw, technology and the Olympic Games.

AudioGo are running an exclusive pre-order competition where you could win an Ian Fleming hardback book autographed by David Tennant! David has recorded On Her Majesty's Secret Service as part of the twelve title series to be released on the 6th September 2012. From Audiogo:

Exclusive 007 Pre-order competitionYOU COULD WIN A 'MONEY CAN'T BUY' PRIZE WHEN YOU PRE-ORDER
007 RELOADED... When you pre-order any title from our 007 Reloaded range (on
CD or Download), we'll enter you into a competion to win an exclusive 'one-off'
prize, a facsimilie of the original hardback novel of the same story, signed by
the star reader! All you have to do is pre-order one of our 007 Reloaded titles and
wait to see if you've won!
Here's a reminder of the titles and the all star readers.
Pre-order now and don't miss out on your chance to win a 'money can't buy'
prize : ·Casino
Royale read by Dan Stevens ·Live
and Let Die read by Rory Kinnear ·Moonraker
re…

David Tennant, who is currently in LA, has recorded a guest slot for US magazine programme Attack Of The Show which will be shown on the programme later this evening (Thursday 2nd August)

From the show's official website: Welcome to TV's only
source for all the stuff you care about from the coolest viral videos to the
hottest new gadgets, comics and movies. Attack of the Show gets it before it
gets out.
Attack Of The Show goes out live at 7.00pm ET on G4 in the USA and on G4 Tech TV in Canada. It will also be shown at 4.30pm on Fuel in Australia on Friday 3rd August.
Check out the show's website after broadcast for video clips and photos from the show.

We have uploaded a collection of photos of David speaking at the 'The Spies of Warsaw' discussion panel during the BBC America section of the 2012 Summer TCA tour at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in LA yesterday.You can view the whole series of photos here.

David Tennant took part in a discussion panel earlier today as BBC America presented The Spies Of Warsaw at the Television Critics Association 2012 Summer Press Tour. David took to the stage alongside writers Ian La Frenais and Dick Clement and executive producer Richard Fell for the fifteen-minute presentation. The event was thoroughly reported via Twitter, with tweets about David's clothing first of all:

@rcatlin: David Tennant at BBC America panel rocking brogue,
stubble, Converse high tops, black jeans and jacket over early Beatles T-shirt.
#tcas12
The delegates at the event were shown a short clip of the series that was described as "great", "intriguing" "very promising" and "looking really good".One journalist, @sepinwall, said of the accents used: "At Spies of Warsaw panel, we're discussing David
Tennant's facility w/accents. I'd rather listen to his regular speaking voice
all the time."
The panel talked about t…

The 007 Reloaded series of audiobooks are now available to pre-order from the AudioGo website. The series of twelve unabridged readings of the classic spy novels by Ian Fleming feature some of the UK's finest actors including David Tennant, who reads On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

Of the book AudioGo say:

In his Alpine base, Blofeld is developing biological weapons that will devastate Britain. Unaware of the danger, James Bond is about to get married to Teresa di Vicenzo, the daughter of a Corsican Mafioso. But then he is sent to Switzerland. Bond's marriage and Blofeld's schemes disintegrate in a blizzard of gunfire and high explosive from which neither man emerges the victor. Includes an exclusive bonus interview with David Tennant.

The series also includes readings by Damian Lewis, Kenneth Branagh and Bill Nighy. The recordings are released on 6th September and cost £7.99 for an mp3 download and £15.00 for the CD. For more information and to place an order visit t…

David Tennant is expected to be on the BBC America TCA Press Tour 2012 panel later today when The Spies Of Warsaw is presented to TV critics from America and Canada. The series is co-produced by the BBC, BBC America, TV Poland and ARTEFrance and was shot in Poland in late spring this year. The Television Critics Association Press Tour Summer 2012 has been taking place at the Beverly Hills Hilton since late July and is an opportunity for TV networks to present their shows for the new season.

Two writers for media and technology site Collider - Christina Radish and Steven Weintraub - have already put out requests to their Twitter followers to send in questions for an interview with David, and the makers of US TV programme Attack Of The Show (which also airs in Canada and Australia) have indicated that David will feature on the show on Thursday.

The Spies Of Warsaw will be coming to TV screens this autumn.Find out more about the series here